Adding colour text to a topic

[IvanC]

Hi, could someone help me out please with a line of HTML/CSS that I can embed into a topic box to (do something like) change a line of text to blue? I can then experiment with other changes…

I realise this is a super simple question for most here, but I’m struggling with the basics. Many thanks for any help.

[merefield (Robert)]

Topics are prepared in Markdown. This standard does not implement coloured text like HTML.

You could try Discourse BBCode color or Awesome BBCodes Plugin: multi-paragraph, nestable, with auto-complete

(though I’ve not tried them myself)

[IvanC]

Thanks very much for the explanation and the suggestions.

[RBoy]

If you don’t want a plugin (which requires editing the app.yml and rebuilding discourse and runs the risk of something breaking if the plugin stops working in future, althrough the BBCode color plugin is an official plugin so it’s a lower risk), a add on theme which can done from the admin browser page without having to recompile:

Discourse Coloured Text

“BBCode-lite” without the need to install a plugin … Adds a simple control (palette icon) to the Composer to facilitate colouring of the foreground and background of text [image] Select a word or text Hit the palette control It will be wrapped like so: [wrap=color color=# bgcolor=#]word[/wrap] Replace the #s with html-compatible colour names, e.g. “red”, “grey” … experiment. NB Same caveats apply as to BBCode: can be used to hide text. Credits Uses @joffreyjaffeux’s Generic…